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Chapter 686: Analysis

The people present include the most core team of the Apocalypse, Qu Yongjie, the general who commands the world's soldiers and horses, Yuan Fang, the head of the Ministry Division, and Xiang Pingren, all of whom are all looking at Shang Haibo, who is sitting at the head of the Apocalypse. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

This is the late princess of Allure's strong recommendation, now seriously ill Shoufu Chen Xiyan's approval, but also for the apocalypse is extremely valued by the apocalypse, they were one of the most dangerous enemies in the past, the thought of going to stand together in the court from now on, or even above themselves, there is a very strange feeling in the hearts of the people here.

Shang Haibo's talent is beyond doubt, assisting Li Qing, in just a few years, in the west of Great Chu, let a small battalion from scratch, become the most dangerous enemy of Great Chu, let the poor Dingzhou proud of the mainland, this person's talent has been fully reflected, for him, everyone now has an indescribable feeling, both hatred, and expectation.

"Mr. Shang!" Tianqi smiled, "Allure said in his letter before that Li Qing has always honored you as sir, so is it okay for me to call you that?" ”

Shang Haibo sat on the brocade pedal and bowed slightly, "Don't dare to be a minister!" ”

Apocalypse laughed, "Sir deserves it." I have always been eager for Mr. You, and now that Mr. is coming back, it is really a long drought and a rainy day, and I have high hopes for Mr. ”

"It is up to man to plan things, and it is up to heaven to make things happen." Shang Haibo was not as grateful as everyone imagined, and his expression was also light, "Since Your Majesty has decided to join Your Majesty, you will definitely do your best and die." In order to help Dachu regain its glory and rule the world again. ”

"Good, good!" Apocalypse laughed, "This is exactly what I was looking forward to. ”

Xiang Ping interjected: "Lord Shang, I have always had something I don't understand, and I ask Lord Shang to solve my doubts." ”

Shang Haibo said: "Master Hou, please speak." ”

"Dingzhou is located in the west, what great ability does Li Qing have to pacify the barbarians within a few years and develop a huge force? Lord Shang has been following Li Qing and participating in the formulation of various policies, so can these policies be transplanted to our Dachu, and can they be as effective as Dingzhou? Xiang Ping asked, everyone in the room immediately pricked up their ears, this question went straight to the core of the question, and it is also the governance program that Li Qing relied on to survive, which can be said to be the foundation of the rise of Dingzhou.

Shang Haibo smiled slightly, knowing that everyone in the room was a little impatient, he cleared his throat and said: "The saint has clouds, the people are the most important, and the society is secondary. ”

"Of course!" Xiang Ping said dissatisfiedly: "We all understand these big truths. I don't need to explain it to Lord Shang. ”

"Good!" Shang Haibo asked: "Then let me ask Master Xiang, Da Chu Ke really did it?" ”

Xiang Ping couldn't help but say something, he naturally could have some high-sounding words to prevaricate, but since it was a small-scale high-level meeting today, some nonsense and clichés naturally didn't need to be said again. The Great Chu regime was built on the basis of the rule of the wealthy lords in the past, and it was not until the tail of the wealthy lords that the tail of the wealthy lords began to threaten the rule of the Great Chu, and the apocalypse had to continue to survive, but even so, the current Luoyang regime is still extremely dependent on these people who are entrenched in various places, and it is just that these people are much more restrained than before.

"Everyone understands the truth, but it is extremely difficult to actually do it!" Shang Haibo sighed, "Dingzhou's policy program, to put it bluntly, is to put this article into practice, is to live in a house, wear clothes, food and food, the old have support, the few have dependence, widows and lonely people have income, the reason why Li Qing in Dingzhou has a hundred calls in the area under the jurisdiction of Dingzhou, and the prestige is incomparably high, is because of the full support of all the people at the bottom." ”

"That's all?" Qu Yongjie was a little hard to believe, "But the Dingzhou forces now span half of the Great Chu, under the jurisdiction, the family still exists, and countless new nobles have emerged, how does Li Qing balance the relationship between the two?" ”

Shang Haibo said very simply, but it is extremely difficult to really do it, whether it is an old family or an emerging aristocracy, they all want to accumulate wealth, and the accumulation of wealth, to put it bluntly, is plundering, who is plundered, it is naturally the promotion of small people.

"Looking at the big Chu wealthy families, most of them occupy countless fertile land, or buy or seize, in short, it is for the purpose of plundering the land, in order to accumulate wealth, but under the jurisdiction of Dingzhou, you can't see this, Dingzhou has a very important measure, that is, to return the land to the people, Li Qing once joked with me that under his rule, he wants to fight the local tyrants, divide the land, so that every common people have their own piece of land, there is perseverance, only each person has their own assets, he has a sense of identity and responsibility for the government."

"Where does the land come from? Isn't it a stealing of the land of those families or landlords to provoke a popular uprising? Apocalypse asked.

Shang Haibo smiled slightly, "Your Majesty doesn't know, the initial implementation of these policies was in Dingzhou, and Dingzhou was already fragmented after the barbarian invasion, the wealthy families either fled with their families, or wiped out, and a large number of ownerless wasteland was abandoned, which cleared the biggest obstacle for the implementation of this policy in Dingzhou, the initial implementation of this policy was extremely smooth, at the beginning, Li Qing even because there were too few people, a large number of fields could not be distributed, and no one cultivated and abandoned the wasteland was extremely distressed. ”

"Later, with the increasing prosperity of Dingzhou, the number of people increased greatly every day, and the land began to show a tense trend, but at this time, Dingzhou won a huge military victory over the barbarians and seized the vast territory of the grassland, so the land in Shanglin as the center, almost equal to the state of Dachu, was developed, which greatly alleviated the difficulty of continuing to implement this policy."

"In the end, Li Qing successively acquired the states of Merge, Lu, Wei, Quan, and Jin, and among these states, the policy adopted by Dingzhou was to redeem and buy land from the landlords with silver money, so that it could be returned to public ownership, and then distributed it."

"Are those landlords willing?" Apocalypse said in surprise.

Shang Haibo said with a smile: "Under the prestige of Dingzhou's great soldiers, who dares to be unwilling, who can be unwilling, not to mention that these landlords are not without income, Dingzhou pays them a lot of silver." ”

"This is also a clever robbery, how can it convince people?" Tianqi shook his head, "But under the rule of Dingzhou, why are those families so obedient to Li Qing, are they really afraid of his swords and guns?" ”

"Definitely!" Shang Haibo shook his head, "Li Qing said that if you close a door to a person, you must open another window for him, otherwise it will make people object, so after Li Qing acquired a large amount of land from these landlords and wealthy families, he began to plan to let these people have another way to make money, and it is faster and easier than them to operate land money, which led to the birth of various chambers of commerce in Dingzhou, these wealthy families have a lot of money in their hands, Li Qing let them devote themselves to industry and commerce, and use this money to bring greater profits." ”

"Shinong Industry and Commerce! Business is the last, most of these wealthy families are scholarly disciples, and they are willing to go to the lowly industry from now on? Xiang Ping asked incomprehensibly.

Shang Haibo snorted, "Business is a cheap business, but business can earn a lot of money, Li Qing knows that the world has a derogatory meaning for business, and vigorously improves the status of businessmen in Dingzhou. ”

"Wasn't it appointed by Li Qing?"

Shang Haibo shook his head, "This director is elected by the chambers of commerce under the jurisdiction of Dingzhou, and the Dingzhou government does not interfere in the slightest in this regard, and is elected once a year, so in order to win re-election, during the tenure of the director of the Department of Commerce and Trade, he is desperately trying to earn benefits for the subordinate chambers of commerce, in the hope that businessmen can obtain greater profits. ”

Everyone in the room couldn't help but lose their color, "Think about it, although these wealthy families have lost their land, they have gained more money and have a say in politics, can they support Li Qing or not!" Li Qing's iron hooves set foot there, and their commercial tentacles stretched there, and Dingzhou commerce also changed the family workshop production, replaced by a huge factory, the production cost is extremely low, you are probably wearing cotton underwear produced in Dingzhou, right? ”

Shang Haibo asked with a smile, although Dingzhou implements economic ***, but at present, these things are still luxuries, but the Central Plains still have a lot of needs, and they can't come openly, so let's smuggle them, these things, everyone here has them, hearing Shang Haibo ask, everyone's faces were red, and they peeked at the apocalypse.

Tianqi smiled, "You don't have to be uneasy, this kind of underwear is really comfortable to wear, and what I am wearing now is also made in Dingzhou." ”

Hearing everyone gasp, Shang Haibo said with a smile: "A cotton underwear sells for as much as five taels of silver in Luoyang, but do you know how much it costs in Dingzhou?" ”

Shang Haibo raised a palm, "Fifty dollars!" ”

Everyone in the room gasped, this is a hundred times the profit.

"This is such a high profit, so the merchants flock to it, the Central Plains to Dingzhou to implement the economy, clamoring to hit the Central Plains The most fierce are those people, it is these businessmen, the current director of commerce and trade raised his arms, and the subordinate chambers of commerce donated up to millions of taels of silver for Li Qing's military expenses, do you know?"

It was with these policies that Li Qing tied Dingzhou's subordinates, whether they were small people, officials, or merchants, to his chariot, and they were all united in their hearts. Can Dingzhou not prosper? ”

Shang Haibo said so much in one breath, and he also felt a little dry, and his hand subconsciously touched the top of several cases around him, and wanted to drink a sip of water, when Tianqi saw this, he hurriedly drank: "Father-in-law Huang, serve tea to Lord Shang!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Shang Haibo arched his hand. "Your Majesty, can Luoyang implement these policies in Dingzhou?"

Tianqi's face was embarrassed, "It's not that it can't be done, but I'm afraid it will have to be slowly figured out." ”

Shang Haibo nodded, of course he knew that Da Chu was now overpowered, and thinking that Dingzhou would make such a drastic move would only accelerate his collapse.

Qu Yongjie said: "Lord Shang, these internal affairs are difficult to see their effects in a short period of time, and they need to be implemented for a long time, I want to know why the Dingzhou army can form combat strength in a very short time, the military system of Dingzhou, and the command system of the Dingzhou army!" ”

Shang Haibo took a sip of fragrant tea and said slowly: "At the beginning of the Dingzhou uprising, there were not many soldiers and horses, but the army was extremely powerful, this is the power of Li Qing and Li Dashuai alone, his training methods are indeed unique, and these training methods must be no secret now, isn't General Qu Da's Xingzhou soldiers also trained on this basis?" ”

Qu Yongjie nodded, "That's true, but with its form and its lost spirit, it intersects with the Dingzhou soldiers, and the Xingzhou soldiers are still inferior to the current new army." A family wants to know, what is wrong with me? ”

"It's not that the general is worse than Li Qing, it's a problem of the system." Shang Haibo closed the bowl and said: "Dingzhou implements a recruitment system, that is, the professional soldiers mentioned by Li Qing, the soldiers take the military sage, it is no exaggeration to say that their ordinary soldiers' military sage is enough to compare with the officers of the subordinate army in Luoyang, and the higher the official rank, the higher the military sage." Not only that, the families of the soldiers can also enjoy the various subsidies and preferential treatment given by the government in the local area, which makes the soldiers have no worries at all, and once the injury can not be engaged in labor, Dingzhou is to bear his future living expenses, once killed, the pension given by Dingzhou is unimaginably generous, based on this, the soldiers of Dingzhou have always been brave and brave, not afraid of death, of course, it is difficult to resist. ”

Qu Yongjie shook his head again and again, "How much silver does this cost?" ”

"Of course, Dingzhou's military spending has always been Dingzhou's biggest expenditure, and it is also Dingzhou's biggest financial burden. It is no exaggeration to say that there are now more than 200,000 soldiers in Dingzhou, but when the war really starts, once all the troops are mobilized, Dingzhou can assemble a reserve corps whose combat strength is not inferior to that of the regular army within a few years, and the number can also reach more than 200,000. ”

Everyone was shocked, once Dingzhou was mobilized, four or five hundred thousand troops poured in, and the Central Plains could resist it.

"But it is precisely because Dingzhou's spending on the army is too large that it is impossible for him to form an army on a large scale, so he can only recruit new soldiers and retire veterans at the same time, so that the military expenditure can be stabilized at a level, unless it is a critical moment, Dingzhou will not set up a large-scale army." Shang Haibo said: "In addition to the combat power of the army, the level of ordnance in Dingzhou must have been received by everyone, which involves another policy of Li Qing, vigorously advocating the theory of governing things, improving the status of craftsmen, the current Ministry of Industry Shangshu Ren Ruqing is a craftsman, if a craftsman invents a powerful ordnance, he can be promoted immediately, the master craftsman is equivalent to a seven-grade official in Dingzhou, which also makes Li Qing's ordnance has been constantly improving, like a strong assembly of trebuchets, four rounds of eight ox crossbows, armor-piercing arrows, a bow, Hundred-round crossbows, and so on! ”

Qu Yongjie was deeply touched by this, "Dingzhou's army equipment is indeed incomparable, and our Imperial Forest Army can only be compared with it, and it can only be on par with other armies." But this has to invest a lot of money, and we can't do anything about equipping ordinary soldiers with full-body iron armor like Dingzhou. ”

Shang Haibo nodded, "In terms of iron smelting, steel refining, and tool making, Da Chu lags behind Dingzhou too much, and this is also something that can't be helped." But everything is done from scratch, and if you are already lagging behind, you have to catch up, such as improving the status of the craftsman to stimulate the invention and creativity of the craftsman, and you can immediately implement it. ”

Tianqi nodded and said: "Time is not waiting, just seize the day, with Mr. Shang presiding over political affairs, I think we will definitely catch up soon with the absolute resource advantage and talent advantage of Dachu." These things can indeed be done right away. ”

"Speaking of the military system!" Shang Haibo said again: "Li Qing has an advantage, that is, he will never interfere with how his subordinates fight, he just formulates a general strategic policy, under this big strategy, how the generals fight, that is the generals' business, he only looks at the results, Dingzhou is now divided into five major group armies, of which Chen Zeyue is in charge of the corps is still being formed, the generals of the five major group armies are Guoshanfeng, Lu Dalin, Yang Yidao, Tian Feng and Zhenzeyue, and now the biggest threat to us is the Guoshanfeng group. ”

"Above the five major group armies, there is the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, and the Governor is Li Qing's father, Li Muzhi, and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies has personnel but no military power, while the commanders of the five major group armies have military power but no personnel power, and they restrain each other. As for the specific direction of responsibility, General Qu Da knows. ”

"So Mr. Shang, does you know that once Li Qing makes a move, where will he start?"

"From Li Qing's layout, we can see that Li Qing returned from the land of Liaoshun Shen, and after the strategic bankruptcy of the original encirclement with the periphery, he supported the king of Ning in the south, forming a tripartite trend, and laid nearly 100,000 heavy troops in Qinzhou, accounting for almost half of the active soldiers in Dingzhou. Then with the sailor as the Austrian aid, the water and land went hand in hand. ”

Everyone was silent, the same as everyone thought, but it was just confirmed by Shang Haibo, "On Zhou Tong's side in Xingzhou, the army restructuring must be carried out immediately, and Zhou Tong must be allowed to quickly integrate the various armies under him, otherwise it will be difficult to resist!" Tianqi gritted his teeth and said: "Tell Zhou Tong that you can be ruthless if necessary, and I will support him!" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty understands!" Qu Yongjie nodded.

Turning to Shang Haibo, "Listening to Mr. Shang's analysis, I also have some context in my heart, so may I ask Mr., from the current point of view, who has more advantages in Luoyang or Dingzhou?" ”

Shang Haibo said solemnly: "I know that the strategy formulated by Your Majesty before was to drag down Dingzhou economically, but with all due respect, if Da Chu does not reform drastically, the longer it drags on, the more beneficial it will be to Dingzhou." Whether it is in terms of the efficiency of the government, the combat strength of the army, or the vitality of the economy, Dingzhou has an advantage, and Da Chu is stronger than Li Qing, only more resources and more talents, but these are not effectively used, and they cannot play any role at all. ”

Tianqi's face was extremely ugly, and Shang Haibo's this was tantamount to completely negating the major policies he had formulated before.